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CVE-2018-16862

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Date: November 26, 2018

A security flaw was found in the Linux kernel in a way that the cleancache subsystem clears an inode after the final file truncation (removal). The new file created with the same inode may contain leftover pages from cleancache and the old file data instead of the new one.

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Related Resources (16)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00017.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4118-1/
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16862
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-2/
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q4/169
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16862
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-16862
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00004.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4094-1/
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16862
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1011367/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106009
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16862
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00034.html
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2018-16862

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Information Leak / Disclosure

CWE-200

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): NONE
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